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From: Reanimation Library

"Another Draize Test  [...] on rabbits in restraining devices. The substance to be tested is poured into the rabbits' eyes and onto their skin, and left there for days until the organ becomes necrotic. This test was invented in 1944, and continues to be used, unaltered." — all-creatures
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"Since the mid-1940s researchers have tested the skin-irritancy potential of chemicals primarily on albino rabbits. In a procedure called the Draize rabbit skin test, a patch of the animal's fur is shaved and the test substance is applied to the bare skin for up to four hours. A trained technician then monitors the skin for as many as 14 days for signs of an adverse reaction and subjectively scores the severity of the reaction. The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) classifies a substance as an irritant if it causes reversible damage to the skin or a corrosive if it causes burns or permanent scarring (irreversible damage)." — Nicholette Zeliadt, Scientific American
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"[...] The film, obtained using a hidden camera inside Wickham Laboratories, a long-established facility in Hampshire that tests drugs for pharmaceutical companies, also shows rabbits being incompetently injected with other drugs. Staff are filmed botching injections and swearing at struggling rabbits, which are immobilised in "stocks" for up to eight hours in experiments that test whether drugs cause fevers.
[...] The filming included a sequence in which a member of staff made a number of attempts to inject a rabbit. She is recorded calling the animal 'a little shit' and 'a disgrace.' She warned the rabbit that it could end up with 'ear-rings' — a reference to punctures in its ear from failed attempts at injections. Another member of staff is recorded remarking that blood is coming out of the rabbit's ear." — Maria Woolf, The Times of India
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